“james joyce”

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, published in 1916, is the story of Stephen Dedalus, and the narrative provides an oblique self-portrait of the author himself. Divided into five sections, Joyce's first novel follows Stephen's life from childhood through adolescence to the first flush of man... More

Though initial preparation for the work began in 1902, Ulysses, a modernist classic, was eventually published in 1922. A remarkable conflation of mythology, symbolism, philosophy, social realism and humanity, this tale of the events of a single day (June 16, 1904) in Dublin is loosely based on Homer... More

With the exception of some verse which remains in copyright with the Joyce estate, this volume brings together Joyce's work in the two genres with which he experimented outside prose fiction - poetry and drama. J.C. Mays points to Joyce's use of these forms to deal with private preoccupations.... More

Strongly autobiographical and exuberantly inventive in its style, Joyce's great novel charts the Dublin childhood and youth of Stephen Debalus. Shaped by his experience of early life at home where his father exerts a powerful influence, through bullying at school to an adolescent crisis of faith an... More

Follows a man's thoughts and dreams during a single night. It is also a book that participates in the re-reading of Irish history that was part of the revival of the early 20th century. The author also wrote 'Ulysses', 'Dubliners' and 'Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man'... More